What is the craziest thing you do to get your swims in? Here is mine: I work tonight from 7 pm to 5 am, THEN I head to the pool for an hour and 15 minutes of swimming. Granted its not the highest quality practice in my week, but with working four ten hour shifts every week I have to swim somewhere during my work week, and that is when it fits in on this shift. My husband just shakes his head says "Whatever honey" as he won't miss me at that hour!
i'd have to say the most hardcore thing i've done to get my swim in involved having to hang up my suit and towel in the ladies' restroom at work! i had late practice one tuesday night (till 9pm). so by the time i got home, it was about 9:20, so naturally my stuff didn't get hung up to dry until at least 10pm. my only problem was the fact that i had to work overtime the next day (til 6 pm) and practice that day was at 6:30. so i didn't have time to get home after work, so i had to pack up my (still) wet suit and towel and take it to work with me. i was just going to lay stuff out on the seat of my car, but the high was only supposed to be 18 degrees, and i wasn't looking forward to having to put on a frozen suit after an 11 hour work day. so i took the suit and towel and hung it up in the ladies' room. and got made fun of all day long for making it smell like a pool... that was last feburary (of '04) and i've still not lived it down... :p
and unfortunately, all of this could have been avoided by having a second suit. but... i had just moved and had managed to leave all my other suits at my old apartment (i was moving in stages, which in hindsight was not a good idea!)
oh well, i just knew i wasn't letting a wet suit keep me from practicing!
;)
i'd have to say the most hardcore thing i've done to get my swim in involved having to hang up my suit and towel in the ladies' restroom at work! i had late practice one tuesday night (till 9pm). so by the time i got home, it was about 9:20, so naturally my stuff didn't get hung up to dry until at least 10pm. my only problem was the fact that i had to work overtime the next day (til 6 pm) and practice that day was at 6:30. so i didn't have time to get home after work, so i had to pack up my (still) wet suit and towel and take it to work with me. i was just going to lay stuff out on the seat of my car, but the high was only supposed to be 18 degrees, and i wasn't looking forward to having to put on a frozen suit after an 11 hour work day. so i took the suit and towel and hung it up in the ladies' room. and got made fun of all day long for making it smell like a pool... that was last feburary (of '04) and i've still not lived it down... :p
and unfortunately, all of this could have been avoided by having a second suit. but... i had just moved and had managed to leave all my other suits at my old apartment (i was moving in stages, which in hindsight was not a good idea!)
oh well, i just knew i wasn't letting a wet suit keep me from practicing!
;)
